I had been at a low rider hydraulic car show when I was about 7 and I had noticed that all of the car badges were written in Italics. I then connected the two together and assumed that in order for a car to have hydraulics, the name had to be written in italics and any car that had italics, had to have hydraulics.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- I used to think my priest was a bit foolish for never having noticed that Dog is God written backwards— anticap
- My little sister's imaginary friend was Kit the talking car from that show Knight Rider.Anon
- I used to believe that the Bible was written by Moses, with God whispering everything in his ear, in English. — Jj
- I used to think that 'non toxic' was a color. I always did wander why is was written on every crayon.— Maddy
- I though the "D" written in "Walt Disney" on some videos was actually a backward "G".
— A. Nonymous - I used to believe anon was a person and couldn't believe he had written so many poems— Helena